CityScape
Downtown Phoenix

Updated 1/8/2008

As stated below the developer had initially planned to build four high rise towers, with one over 500 feet.  It later revised the plans reducing the building height to no more than 400 feet.

However, the Federal Aviation Administration ruled on January 7, 2008, that the project does not pose a risk to air traffic entering or leaving Phoenix.  This opens the possibility to increase the height of the high rise buildings to as high as 510 feet.

CityScape Overview

• Downtown Phoenix Arizona
• over 2.5 million square feet of mixed use space
• 3 blocks mixed use – hotel, office, retail, high rise and loft condominiums
• Four 40-story high-rise towers
• 1200 residential condominium units
• 100,000 sq ft of public plaza
• Opening Spring 2009

CityScape, is a $900 million "hub" of retail shops, hotels, office space and high rise condominiums and loft condos.  It will occupy approximately three square blocks of prime downtown Phoenix real estate running from First Avenue to Second Street and from Washington to Jefferson Streets in the Phoenix Copper Square District.    CityScape borders US Airways Center (home to the Phoenix Suns) and is a short walk from Chase Field (home to the Arizona Diamondbacks).  The new (under construction) Phoenix Light Rail runs adjacent to CityScape which will be served by two rail stations.  It is expected that CityScape will be a major part of downtown Phoenix revitalization and become a focal point for a new urban scene.

RED Development, LLC is acting as the master developer for the CityScape project.  Cardon Development Group is RED Development's Joint Venture Partner.  These two have a "strategic development alliance" with the Barron Collier Company, which owns the eastern-most block of the project. Overall project design is being led by Callison Architecture, Inc.  The City of Phoenix is pitching in with more than $120 million in tax incentives and other subsidies.

CityScape plans call for four high rise towers with a mix of commercial (offices) and residential high rise condos and loft condominiums, plus up to 250,000 square feet of retail, dining and entertainment. The retail aspect includes boutiques, specialty retail (e.g. apparel, home furnishings, etc) and traditional neighborhood stores like a grocer and other shops.  It is expected that the stores and services housed at CityScape will not only appeal to and cater to Downtown Phoenix residence, workers and ASU and U of A students but will also draw people from beyond Downtown to the area; becoming the point of destination that Downtown Phoenix has so long needed.

Construction on CityScape began October 2007 and the first phase is currently scheduled to open in 2009.